The Dueling Dragons Nebula is a great Southern Hemisphere target! You can capture this nebula with a standard color camera and fairly wide telescope, assuming you're shooting from a dark sky.

One of the best features of Photoshop is the built-in Camera RAW filter. This provides an easy interface where you can quickly fix the color, contrast, noise, and detail of the image. In this video I'll show Affinity Photo's alternative - "Develop"

Affinity Photo can be used instead of Photoshop in most cases, and in this video I'll show how to use both Luminosity and Color Masks for precise edits.

In 2025 Adobe doubled the price of Photoshop from $10 to $20 per month. At this price, I find it hard to recommend. In this video we'll check out two alternative programs that you can use instead of Photoshop - GIMP and Affinity Photo

Linear Fit can be used for narrowband SHO imaging to equalize the three color channels, removing the overly-green tint. The Sulphur channel is normally used as the Reference Image, and applied to both Oxygen and H-Alpha

The golden ratio is a famous mathematical concept that is tied to the Fibonacci sequence. Also known as the golden mean, it is an irrational number that approximately equals 1.618. The golden ratio results when the ratio of two numbers is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two numbers. In other words, the golden ratio occurs when you divide a line segment into two smaller segments of different lengths for which the ratio of the whole line segment to the longer segment is equ